From 5e2ea3c86dc480a75877d9395fc3b4d2c6cc5223 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Garlick <garlick.jim@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 11:14:45 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] libkvs/dir: kvsdir_create handle invalid arguments

---
 src/common/libkvs/kvs_dir.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/common/libkvs/kvs_dir.c b/src/common/libkvs/kvs_dir.c
index a6eea14be063..e0ad750e5ef2 100644
--- a/src/common/libkvs/kvs_dir.c
+++ b/src/common/libkvs/kvs_dir.c
@@ -71,6 +71,10 @@ kvsdir_t *kvsdir_create (flux_t *handle, const char *rootref,
 {
     kvsdir_t *dir;
 
+    if (!key || !json_str) {
+        errno = EINVAL;
+        return NULL;
+    }
     if (!(dir = calloc (1, sizeof (*dir))))
         goto nomem;